UK universities may be among the most autonomous, but they need international cooperation to make their voices heard, says President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle in an article for the Times Higher Education.

Dr Athina Karatzogianni, Associate Professor at the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, has written an article for Think: Leicester explaining how to stay safe online following large scale cyber-attacks.

Eliminating cheating services, even if it were possible, would do nothing to address students’ and universities’ lack of interest in learning, says Stuart Macdonald, from our School of Business, in an article for the Times Higher Education.

Dr Leigh Fletcher from the Department of Physics and Astronomy has discussed how new Jupiter findings are changing the view we view the distant planet. This article was also featured by The Conversation.

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